Did a Mississippi man grow the world's tallest pepper plant? Henry Pope, the lead grower and plant geneticist for Mississippi Foundation for Renewable Energy, worked to cross-pollinate specific ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Brazilian pepper tree, an invasive plant in the southern United States, is showing great potential in the fight ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --An environmental group in Mississippi might have broken a Guinness World Record with a cayenne pepper plant that grew to be nearly 16.5 feet tall. Henry Pope, the lead grower and ...